What genres are under-represented on the PC? What PC games are in those genres?

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What genres are under-represented on the PC? What PC games are in those genres?

So I was thinking about the what console games are PC gamers missing thread, and I wanted to take it a step further. What genres are we missing, are there any console games you would like to see replicated on PC? I'd like to get a list up and running. Emulation exists, but arguing whether it's legal or moral is probably something for another day. I also won't list the huge amount of legal genesis games that sega plopped on steam.

Amaranth's games (like Aveyond)
Breath of Death and Cthulu Saves the World
Exit Fate and Last Scenario (free and quite good)
Final Fantasy 7 (plus a few more ports)
Iffermoon (free)
Last Remnant?
Septerra Core
The Spirit Engine (free and not an RPGmaker game)

A couple more Metroidvanias (a term that I hate, by the way. This is Metroid's scene, Castlevania can just fuck off ) are Project Black Sun and La Mulana. I've played the former for a little bit, it seemed kind of dinky. I haven't played the latter, though I hope that it's good.

I'd like to nominate Iji for the Metroidvania section. As in, best PC Metroidvania ever.
Other metroidvanias might be the extremely known Cave Story and the ohmygodthereareloliseverywherekillthemkillthem Fortune Summoners

There's a whole lot of indie shoot-em-ups. I guess the reason for them being mostly indie is because even big-name ones seem to have small audiences in the west and not make it cross-platform even to other consoles.

Isn't prototype a sandbox game? God of war is supposed to be linear if remember correctly.

Originally Posted by Kodeen

A couple more Metroidvanias (a term that I hate, by the way. This is Metroid's scene, Castlevania can just fuck off ) are Project Black Sun and La Mulana. I've played the former for a little bit, it seemed kind of dinky. I haven't played the latter, though I hope that it's good.

I preferred metroid far more than castlevania too, but the term is useful because people understand what it means.

DIRTBIKE GAMES! Only serious one on the market right now is MX Simulator. I played the demo, and it was ok-ish, but not so good that I'd want to pay 43 bucks for the full version. :P Yeah, yeah, there are some crappy ones as well like MX vs ATV and whatnot, but nothing on the market right now that touches the brilliance of Motocross Madness 2, from 12 years ago. The most promising thing on the horizon, dirtbike-wise, is GTA 5. :/

Originally Posted by Kodeen

Project Black Sun [...] seemed kind of dinky.

I actually played through that one. Liked it a lot, though the bossfights defenitely are too difficult to be any fun.

Fighting games? Arguable(a lot), and racing games... yes, but if you're into that you should buy a steering wheel anyway.

Fighting games are 99% muscle memory, so the controller you start with is the controller you keep. Arcade gamers are arcade gamers through and through, and as fighting games are the domain of consoles when they're not in arcades, they're designed with that layout in mind: Joystick and buttons.

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